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Deputy Michael A. Zepp was honored as the 2001 Deputy of the Year in ceremonies yesterday at the Carroll County sheriff's office. Zepp, 31, joined the department three years ago after serving as a Taneytown police officer. Last year, he made 43 arrests for drunken driving and had 25 criminal arrests, including 15 drug charges, said Sheriff Kenneth L. Tregoning. "Deputy Zepp is a very conscientious, sincere, dedicated and aggressive law enforcement officer, and he is multifaceted in his approach to law enforcement: equally good at traffic enforcement as well as criminal enforcement, including the narcotics laws," Tregoning said.

Dr. Ira Gilbert Zepp, a social activist and influential professor of religious studies at what is now McDaniel College who had inspired generations of students to devote their lives to civil rights, peace and social justice, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at his Westminster home. He was 79. "Ira will be deeply missed and long remembered by everyone in our college family," McDaniel President Joan Develin Coley said Monday in a statement. "Ira was a gifted and devoted teacher, a true humanitarian who gave unselfishly of himself to make this world a better place for all," Dr. Coley said.

An article in Thursday's edition of The Sun for Howard County gave incomplete information about the aftermath of a fight over a home-based business in West Friendship.After business owner Robin Davidson filed misdemeanor assault charges against Charles Zepp of Sykesville, Zepp filed misdemeanor assault charges against Davidson and his wife, Patrice Davidson.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 6/18/96

Company donates police bicycle to Union Bridge Carroll County Sheriff's Deputy Cpl. Clint Cromwell could soon be two-wheeling through Union Bridge. The town has a new Fuji mountain bike, thanks to a donation made last week by Lehigh Portland Cement Co. Cromwell said he hopes to begin training on it within two weeks. "Then I can get out in the neighborhoods, be more mobile," he said. Cromwell has provided police coverage for Union Bridge since July 2002. That is when he was named the resident deputy to provide law enforcement coverage after the Town Council voted to save money by switching from the Maryland State Police resident trooper program to the county Sheriff's Department.

A young beef farmer hired by the county Department of Economic Development says he will seek new markets for local farm products and expand the department's involvement in Carroll's and Maryland's largest industry.Gabriel Zepp, 24, of Old Washington Road in Westminster began work yesterday as agricultural marketing specialist, a new position in the county.Zepp is to come up with a strategic plan in the next few months, during which he will speak with counterparts in other counties, state economic development staff members and others, said John T. "Jack" Lyburn Jr., the county director of economic development.

A former high-ranking deputy sheriff is suing Harford County, its top executive and its chief attorney, contending that he was forced to retire last year in the wake of an inmate's death in the county detention center.Maj. E. Dale Zepp, 56, of Bel Air was a bureau commander in charge of the jail and court services until he was coerced into retirement, according to the civil suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.Mr. Zepp had supervised the detention center since it opened in 1973, the suit said.

On June 8, 2006, MARION ANN (nee Zepp); beloved wife of Lebro W. Casagrande; devoted mother of Sheila Krause and husband Fred, Janene Schmidt and husband Jon; loving grandmother Brian Krause and wife Alysia and Evan Krause; dear sister of Donald Zepp and the late Jerry Zepp and June Buhrman. A Christian Wake service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, on Sunday at 7:30 P.M. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated in the Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church on Monday at 10 A.M. Entombment Oak Lawn Cemetery.

ABOUT THE TIME I was supposed to be interviewing someone for this column, I was waiting to hear from my husband, who had left for Baltimore-Washington International Airport at 6 a.m. Tuesday to catch a flight to Indiana. I also was waiting to hear from relatives in New York, including my brother-in-law Ray, who works in Lower Manhattan, and my brother Tom, whose train stops at the World Trade Center every morning about 8:30 before reaching the law firm where he works. The topic I had planned to write about for this column would have to wait.

On October 27, 2006, ELSIE ZEPP HUTCHISON of Baltimore, MD; beloved husband of Holton Marion Hutchison, devoted mother of Katheryn H. Kraemer and her husband Brian and the late Michael Foard Hutchison; loving sister of Ira Zepp Jr., and his wife Mary , Murray Zepp and his wife Charlotte, Dale Zepp and his wife Charlotte and Patricia Mikkonen and her husband Arvo. Also survived by two grandchildren, Amanda Kraemer and Jenna Kraemer and two aunts, Margaret L. Foard and B. Ruth Foard. Services will be held at the family owned McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Abingdon, MD on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 10:00 A.M. Interment will be in Bel Air Memorial Gardens, Bel Air, MD. Friends may call at the funeral home in Abingdon on Monday, October 30, 2006 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to Normandy Farms Therapeutic Riding, 3135 Ady Rd., Street, MD 21154.

Western Maryland College students, faculty and alumni were honored during Sunday's annual Senior Investiture and Honors Convocation in Baker Memorial Chapel.Academic, activity, and leadership awards, as well as the Distinguished Teaching Award, were presented to members of the Class of 1992 and faculty.Ira G. Zepp Jr., Class of 1952, was named the college's Distinguished Teacher. This is the third time Zepp, a professor of religious studies, has won this award since joining the Western Maryland faculty in 1963.